The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-30
AUTUMN MILLINERY.
COIors, Styles and Fabrics for the A
preaching Demf-Seaaon.

COlors, styles and Fabrics for the APP
preaching Demi-SeasOn.
While the summer is at its heighA /
French milIiners prepare their move
ties for autumn, and importations have
already been received here giving the |
earliest hints of cOlors, styles and |
fabrics for the approaching demi-sea-
son. In colors the gray, Gobelin blue
and green shades that found such favor
at the Grand Prix will be fashionable
throughout the autumn; but as these
| are cold colors they will need to be
warmed up for the winter by the new
pale yellow and deep orange tints, and
with the brilliant cactus red which Is
even now chosen by stylish women for
/ watering-plaee toilets.
Ribbons will continue to be used for
bonnet trimmings in widths varying
/ from two and a half to four or five
/ inches. The picot-edged ribbons will
not be abandoned, but the newer styles
and the incest qualities will have
plain edges, sometimes finished with
a straight cord, sometimes with merely
fat satin edge, and sometimes with
both cord and satin band. The novel
ties are the glace or changeable
| ribbons of one color shot across
| another, and the 'fiorescent" cOlors
with the shading done in the dye, and
producing very pretty effects. eros
grain and MORE ribbons make up the
bulk of the importations, and these
show odd contrasts in their changeable
colors and quantity delicate horescent
shading.
The glace mOire ribbons for trimming
the dark straw bOnnets and the lace
hats that are worn throughout the au-
tumn may be quite plain or in stripes,
with satin or with velvet, or else the
center is of dotted eros grain, with the
sides of moire. Plain gros grain rib
; bons with straight edges will probably
be the choice for elegant winter bon.
nets.
The new bonnets remain small and
, close-ftting, with lower crowns, and
= many have coronet fronts. Lower
4 crowns and projecting brims springin5
2 out from the crown are features Of the
new round hats The brims are most
caprieiously shaped, some protrudine
I far in front, others much wider on one
t side. some turned up in a sharp point
4 against the back of the crown, and
!, others rolled upward in front and grad
:, Mating narrower toward the right side
G A novelty is the generals chapeau
h called also the BOulanger with its wide
!, brim turned up on each side in SHARP
e point reaching to the top of the crown
q and close against it. This is TO bt
trimmed with a long, thick plume, eX
G tending from the front to the back owe
5 the crown. Other felt bonnets ant
II hats have pinked edges of the fel
l. in tapping rows on the brim or dow
1t the sides of the crown. Turban
Ie will be used again in all the low
n crowned English shapes, and wit
r some slightly higher indented crown
vi pointed toward the front. Children
lie hats of felt are mostly white, or in tn
re graYish GObelin blue shades. They ar
to entirely of the smooth felt, or else tn
" crown only is plain, and the brim is c
5 the lOng-napped brush felt.
it Velvet, faille franchise, Bengalint
a MORE and gros grain viii be tn
- fabrics used for making bonnets. a
of these materials are soft and plan
the corded silk being more supple tina
in any of the previous seasons. III
velvets are plain, in all the new color
p' and are also changeable, shadin
or through two or three tones of one co
lie or, or else in two contrasting shade
ok striped and plaid velvets are seen, an
It's new watered velvet is in plain colo
1t and glace as well.
av Felt and beaver bonnets and rom
n. hats are largely imported in all Il
~ new dark colors. The felt is smoOt
with some borders of long furry beave
ep Hats of plain beaver, or hatter's plus
&C. as milliners call it, are like the sil
I'M hats worn by gentlemen; these con
ch in all dark colors as well as in CLOS
err black, and will be chosen to mate
i've tailor suits of cloth; they were intr
lot duced last winter, and were in gre
in favor with ladies who adopt Engli
ed styles of dressing .-Harper' Bagar.